2024 began with several increases in rates and services in Uruguay, and there are still some to be confirmed in the coming days, although many of them remain below the inflation accumulated during the last year.
From today the increase in payments made with cards of the Metropolitan Transportation System (SMT)so the 1-hour electronic ticket costs 45 pesos.
The increase was announced by the Municipality of Montevideo (IM) and began to take effect at 00 this Friday, in line with the actions carried out in this regard during the last four years. The increase in the value of the ticket was 3 pesos, although it will not impact the trips of retirees and pensioners category A and B, or for users of the ABC ticket.
This increase is added to the one that has been in force since January 1 in the interdepartmental ticket, arranged by him Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP). It is 4.5% on average, and was implemented due to the “mismatch between the September 2023 rate increase and the July 2023 wage increases.”
In this way, from the first day of the year, the value of the passenger-kilometer rate It is 2,990 pesos for short-distance national lines; 2,882 pesos for regional medium and long distance services; and 2,939 pesos for central long distance.
Meanwhile, the prices for the use of the platforms of the Tres Cruces Terminal They remained at 116.64 pesos for the buses short distance; 233.29 pesos for those of middle distance; 360.30 pesos for those of long distance; and 440.65 pesos for the international services.
Finally, the MTOP enabled transportation companies to charge 8 pesos per shipment for short distances, 17 pesos for medium distances, 26 pesos for long distances, and 31 pesos for international services.
Increases in services
For its part, the National Administration of State Electrical Power Plants and Transmissions (UTE) presented to Executive power a 2.5% increase in their rates for January, below the accumulated inflation of 2023 – which was finally 5.11%, within the target range; Although the new tariff schedule must be approved by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM).
Likewise, the directory of SBI unanimously approved a 5.5% increase, barely above inflation, due to the impact that the state company had due to the drought history that affected Uruguay throughout the summer and much of the first semester of last year.
Antel, Meanwhile, it adjusted its rates by an average of 4.5%.
For the moment, the fuels They were the only ones that did not increase—nor will they—during January, while the MIEM decreed the freezing of gasoline and the reduction in diesel.
Source: Ambito
